Halloween Chocolate Candy Bar Prices May Scare Consumers With Halloween just 13 days away, consumers should expect higher supermarket prices for candy bars from Hershey’s, Nestle, Mars, and Cadbury. Cocoa prices have doubled this year due to a supply crisis in West Africa, a top cocoa-producing region, which has already impacted global production. Wells Fargo Agri-Food analyst David Branch recently told clients that consumers should see another price spike on chocolate candy bars this Halloween. He said crop conditions in West Africa are still plagued with disease and overall drier conditions, adding that this only indicates that harvest will remain low and candy bar manufacturing costs… — Continue at ZeroHedge News : Read More
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